Muneer Abdul, kidnapped man and threatened him with knife after he clipped his wing mirror

A driver abducted a man and threatened him with a blade after a minor collision involving their car wing mirrors. He then made his victim get in his car and drove him to his house to get £100 Muneer Abdul, 27, was navigating a country lane in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, on 30 January last year when he and the victim’s vehicle collided, damaging each other’s wing mirrors. Following the incident, both drivers pulled over for a discussion, a court heard. Abdul left the victim sitting in his car for 15 to 20 minutes before telling him that he owed him £100. When the victim told him he didn’t have that money on him the defendant became more aggressive and told him to search his car. He then took the victim’s car keys for “insurance“ and drove the victim to his house to retrieve the money. The victim’s father was woken up as his son searched the house for cash and went out to question Abdul but he was met with rudeness and derogatory words. After the victim gave him £100 the defendant drove him back to his car and, referring to his father, said: “People like him don’t get on in life.“ The victim took this as an implied threat and called the police. Judge Crowther said: “[The victim] was completely traumatised by what you did to him because you thought you were better than him and you thought you could get what you wanted.“ During his trial Abdul breached his bail by turning up outside his victim’s home where he was seen by members of the victim’s family who were “extremely upset“. Abdul, of Loudoun Square, Butetown, Cardiff, was convicted of kidnap and threatening a person with a knife. The court heard he had previous convictions for motoring and drug offences. Sentencing, Judge Crowther said: “Rather than being civil and understanding and acknowledging these things can sometimes happen. your immediate response was aggression and using threats. You were not prepared to accept an apology from the victim. You were not prepared to do what anybody who drives a motor vehicle is prepared to do exchange names and addresses. One of the reasons you didn’t want to do that was you shouldn’t have been in that vehicle anyway. It wasn’t yours and you weren’t insured to drive it. You had no business on the road at all.“ Join this channel to get access to perks: